Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1887 — MRS. JEFFERSON DAVIS. [ARTICLE]

MRS. JEFFERSON DAVIS.

A Letter From a Proud, SelfReliant Woman That Speaks for Itself. Augusta, Ga., Dec. 1. —Some time ago a movement was on foot at Macon to raise, by popu’ar subscription, a Jeff Davis fund. The project was heartily approved of by the press and people, and bad-* fair to be a great success, but it has fallen through. The following letter from Mrs. Davis brought about an abandonment of the project. It is addressed to Col. W. II Cross, Macon, Ga., chairman of the committee having the matter in hand:

‘ If anything could endear me to our friends in Macon it would be the solicitude manifested for our welfare throughout and the love for my husband; but, my dear sir, let me thank you for the efforts, but deprecate the accomplishment of it. Both my daughter and I have received an education which will stand instead of money, wore anything to be sw 'pt away, which I do not contemplate, and the blessing of iudepender ce ard freedom are dearer to us than wealth and ease, and we should not be comfortable under this monied obligations to those who have given afar greater boon to my husband already, their hearts. I have been thus frank with you because, as Montague says, ‘ t is you and it is I.’ I hope you will act on my letter. mph Q 1 1—■■ Since the 4th of March, 1885, acres of land, stolen under Republican administration, have been restored t > the : üblic domain. Indiana contains 23,264,GOO acres. It will be seen that the amount of land reclaimed in two years by a Democratic administration is equal to the State of Indiana and leaves a balance of 8,56°,481 acre.?. New Jersey contains 5,001,600 acres and Connecticut 3,193,600 acres, and thus it is seo . that the Democratic party has reclaimed from the land thieves lands equal as follows to A Creg Indiana 23,264,000 New Jersey 5,001,600 Ooiuecticut 3,193,600 Total 31,458,200 with a remainder of 365,281 acres equal to 2,283 farms of 160 acres e: ch, and still one acre is left, about enough for a prison in which to inearcerate the thieves if they could be caught and punished as they deserve. If the Democratic party is defeated in 1888, the land thieves will again go into business, and what little of the public domain is leit will rapidly disappear.

Attorney General Garland has given an opinion on several points which have been raised relative to the adjustment of railroad land grants under the act of March the 3d, 1887. He strongly emphasizes the remedial scope of the aet, and says that its intent is to relieve from loss, settlers and bona fide purchasers, who through the erroneous or wrongful disposition of the lands in the grants, 1 y the officers of the government or by the railroads, have lost their rights or acquired equities, which in justice should be recognized. He holds that the whole remedial part of this act was passed with a recognition of the fact that the railroad companies had sold lands to which they had no jmst claim. Stephen W. Dorsey, the Republican Shir route thief, attempted to steal 600,000 acres of lan J * in New Mexico. Hon. George W. Julian exposed the rascality of the Republican scamp, and Mr. Dorsey replied. This gave Mr. Julian an opportunity to let a little more light in upon the rascality of Dorsey, and if the Government does not compel the old star route tkief to let go his grip upon the stolen lands it will be justly deserving of censure. This is the same Dorsev who supplied) the money with which to run republican voters from Illinois into In liana, October, 1880.